Women’s Day at the Capitol draws enthusiastic crowd
More than 200 women, men and students gathered at the Capitol on March 12 for our
annual Women’s Day. The expert Journalism and Gender panel talked about what has
-- and has not -- changed in public policy reporting, while Constitutional Officers and
many legislators spoke on the importance of the PCSW’s work in women’s rights.
(Top) “Journalism & Gender”
panelists: (front row, l-r): Susan
Haigh, AP; Angela Carter,
Digital First Media; Daniela
Altimari, Hartford Courant.
(Back row): Susan Campbell,
Partnership for Strong Communities; Lucy Nalpathanchil,
WNPR; Christine Stuart, CT
News Junkie.com; Jenifer Frank,
CT Mirror.com.
(Middle) PCSW Executive Director Teresa Younger, Rep. Betsy
Ritter, Sen. Beth Bye, Rep. Noreen Kokoruda, Rep. DebraLee
Hovey; Rep. Melissa Ziobron
and Rep. Themis Klarides.
(Bottom, left) Attorney General
George Jepsen, State Rep. Toni
Walker and Secretary of the
State Denise Merrill.
(Bottom, right) Essay contest
winner Morgan Kuehnle of
Coginchaug Regional High
School reads her essay HERE.
See Event Photo Album HERE.
Watch the day on CT-N HERE.
PCSWNews
Connecticut General Assembly
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Don’t miss these great events...
March 24 One of Us, All of Us Conference
PCSW’s Teresa Younger is keynoting this event, focused on education, empowerment and evolution. Capital Community College, Hartford, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
March 25 The Activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker
Author Susan Campbell and PCSW’s Teresa Younger talk about women’s activism -- then and now. Old State House, Hartford. Noon.
April 8 Pay Equity Day
Be sure to get your free buttons and heighten awareness about the wage gap.
Contact Michelle Noehren at michelle.noehren@cga.ct.gov.
April 11 & 12 The 21st Annual Women’s Studies Conference
“Ecology, Spirituality, Sustainability, Feminist & Indigenous Interventions”
Southern CT State University; Fri. (4/11)1-5:30; Sat. (4/12) 8:30-5:30.
June 23 White House Summit on Working Families
Join President Barack Obama, the Center for American Progress, and the
Department of Labor as they explore how we can strengthen our nation’s
workplaces to better support working families.
New economic security report from CLASP
Irregular and unpredictable work schedules can wreak havoc on any family’s
economic security. But businesses and consumer spending are affected, too. A
new report by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Retail Action
Project (RAP), and Women Employed has the details, as well as recommendations about what can be done. Read the report HERE.
Women’s History Month poster series...
And click
HERE to see
a teaser of
PCSW’s
documentary film on
40 years of
progress for
Connecticut
women.
Posters available for
download HERE.
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Honor Your History
Honor Your History
arch is Women’s History Month, and the PCSW -- the state’s leading
force for women’s equality -- is pleased to offer some reasons to be
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proud of our shared heritage. Throughout the month, we’ll be sending:
arch is Women’s History Month, and the PCSW -- the state’s leading force for
women’s equality -- is pleased to offer some reasons to be proud of our shared
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heritage. Throughout the month, we’ll be sending:
www.cga.ct.gov/pcsw
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• Links to sites that help you celebrate and learn about women’s history;
• Fun facts from women’s history and inspirational quotations; and
• Profiles of Connecticut women who fought for gender equity.
Thank you for joining us in honoring the women who paved the way for us all.
Do you know her?
Constance Baker Motley - First African American
federal court judge;
(1921-2005)
- Successfully argued nine
U.S. Supreme Court civil
rights cases;
- Instrumental in Brown v.
Board of Education (1954);
- First African American
woman elected to New York
State Senate;
- 1998 inducted into the
CT Women’s Hall of Fame.
Listen
up:
www.ctpcsw.com
March 24, 2014
“The world has never yet seen a truly great
and virtuous nation because in the degradation
of woman the very fountains of life
are poisoned at their source.”
Lucretia Mott, American abolitionist (1793-1880)
Strange, but true...
1848 Some men spoke up for women back then. At
the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New
York, 32 men (of the 40 present) signed the “Declaration
of Sentiments” calling for women’s voting rights. Interestingly, only 68 of the 260 women present signed it.
Great resources!
The Hartford Women’s History Month Collaborative
Email: hartfordcelebrateswomen@gmail.com.
Great Women’s History Timeline
www.biography.com/tv/classroom/womens-history-timeline
Library of Congress Honors Women
http://womenshistorymonth.gov/
• Links to sites that help you celebrate and learn about women’s history;
• Fun facts from women’s history and inspirational quotations; and
• Profiles of Connecticut women who fought for gender equity.
Thank you for joining us in honoring the women who paved the way for us all.
Great resources!
Do you know her?
Empowering Leaders; Inspiring Change
http://www.ctosh.org/
Must-see interactive website
www.cwhf.org
Special Collection on Women’s History
http://hhc.hplct.org
Listen up:
“Everyone has inside of her a piece
of good news.
The good news is that you don’t know
how great you can be! How much you
can love! What you can accomplish!
And what your potential is!”
– Anne Frank, author, humanitarian,
Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Catherine Roraback
(1920-2007)
-- Trailblazing 50-year career as legal advocate;
-- Litigated landmark Griswold v. Connecticut case
(1965), successfully challenging CT’s restrictive birth
control law by establishing a woman’s right to privacy;
-- Was the only female in her 1948 Yale Law School
graduating class; Litigated Women v. Connecticut
(1972), Connecticut’s counterpart to Roe v. Wade;
-- Known as “least flamboyant of radical lawyers”;
-- 2001 inducted into the CT Women’s Hall of Fame.
Record-Breakers...
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n 2010, the No. 1-ranked UConn women
Huskies broke the 88-game winning streak
record set by UCLA’s men’s team (1971-74).
The Huskies continue to prove their mettle
on the court and in the classroom.
Honor Your
History
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arch is Women’s History Month, and the PCSW -- the state’s leading force for
women’s equality -- is pleased to offer some reasons to be proud of our shared
heritage. Enjoy and share this, the third in our series of Women’s History Broadsides...
Thank you for joining us in honoring the women who paved the way for us all.
Do you know her?
Most influential writer of the 19th century; Brought the evils of slavery to the
nation’s attention; Expert on domestic
science and horticulture; Inducted into
CT Women’s Hall of Fame in 1994.
Learn about her at:
H.B. Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford
(1811-1896)
Listen
up:
When you get into a tight
place and everything goes
against you, till it seems
as though you could not
hang on a minute longer,
never give up then,
for that is just the place
and time that the tide
will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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embers of the Connecticut Women’s Land Army,
who cultivated farms during
WWII when male agricultural
laborers moved to factories for
war production. The women
were paid 25-40 cents per hour.
Reprinted by permission from
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
First in the Nation...
1974 Ella Tambussi Grasso (shown above) became the first
woman in the United States to be elected governor in her own
right. Considered a moderate, her 1981 New York Times obit
said, “...while she did not seek to change the nature or the direction of government, she was a pioneer, in the mid-1970’s, in
giving the public access to officials and records, and in leading
the state’s efforts to help the elderly and the retarded...”
Great minds...
The windshield wiper. The circular saw. Antifungal Nystatin. The street-sweeper.
Computer programming. Submarine telegraph code that eluded the Nazis. Paper
bags. Leukemia drugs. Non-toxic replacement for asbestos. Coffee lters. The
folded parachute. The Apgar infant health test. Maritime signal ares. The
formula that led to the development of computer software, articial intelligence
and computer music. The molecular shape of penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D
and insulin. The refrigerator.
What do they all have in common? You guessed it – they were invented by women.
Demographics...
Women over 18 in Connecticut in latest census: 1,435,664.
In 1800 census: 69,574. Notably, women were listed as “Free
White Females” in the 1800 census, which also listed 951 Connecticut slaves, not broken down by gender.